An independent review of national workplace safety laws is expected to recommend a new offence of industrial manslaughter to make employers liable for gross negligence of their workers. Marie Boland, former executive director of SafeWork South Australia, who led the...

January has slipped by already, but many businesses will be revisiting their health and safety controls and reminding workers about how to work safely in all the tasks they are completing. Managers with a strategic focus will also be asking themselves what they can...

The number of workplace deaths dropped last year but the government’s safety agency says it’s still too high. Forty two workers died in accidents in 2018, down from 50 in 2017 and in 2016. The agriculture sector had the highest number with 16 people killed...

ACC will launch a new $22 million injury prevention scheme for small and medium businesses which aims to prevent workplace injuries before they occur. The funding – $4.4 million per year over five years – would come in the form of grants and subsidies which, from...

The government is changing its approach to health and safety, with a greater focus on mental fatigue in its strategy for the next decade. Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway launched his 10-year strategy this afternoon, which has been consulted on and...